Juliancolton

Alright, who's building arks and who's still watering the lawn?

I'm sure it'll balance out this winter when we get the jack for all the major snow events.

Yeah I've been watching that guy all afternoon. Hopefully it holds together. Edit: latest scans show echoes weakening and the outflow boundary surging out ahead, it's dead Jim

The heaviest stuff stayed just to my east by literally a matter of yards, but still a nice steady dousing here. I'm just on the light blue side of this little isthmus here, so that's, what... 1/8th of a mile to the 1"+ amounts?

The contractor thinks it's an easy job after a first look and could be done for under $5k without draining the pond. The pond construction specialist had to reschedule so still waiting on that opinion, though I suspect he'll tell a slightly more elaborate story. Another bone-dry day here as other areas get drenched.

I figure we're about five, maybe six weeks out from stressed maples flashing their first color. Let's goooo.

It's mostly seeping underneath I think. Nonetheless, the water is back up about 2" this morning after I just absolutely loaded it up with with clay and rocks, so at least the fish genocide seems to be averted for now. Getting some quotes this weekend on having it done the right way. It's all good. There are a lot of folks who have much bigger problems than leaky bass ponds and nettlesome swimming pools. If those are my big sorrows for 2020, I'll be in a pretty good spot.

So today on the farmstead: 1) Pool level is below the return valves and the pump, either coincidentally or as a result, appears to have burned out overnight 2) Well is barely replenishing and will probably run dry in a week at the current rate of usage 3) Dam is completely gone and my jury-rigged plywood and cinder block coffer is still leaking more water than the inflow (now a trickle) can replace @rclab's postage stamp sounds more and more appealing with each passing day...

Drought cancel

The most fleeting and tenuous spritz of drizzle imaginable.

Looking for my first drop of rain in 13 days tonight.

We're on pace for about 50 top-ten days this summer.

A PWS up the road from me at a little lower elevation notched a 37. Pretty remarkable for the date.

39F here. My only regret is that I had but one window fan to pump that stuff into my bedroom.

Intolerable out here. If the sun comes out it'll just be death.

I'm sure the aquifer is still running fine i(u?)mby but I'll never know. Ye olde 8-foot pit FTL.

As is tradition. I've run it dry three out of the last three years and I've finally learned my lesson. No real help from Cristobal it appears.

Pick one for today's water allocation: 1) top off the pool, 2) water the gardens and do laundry, 3) pressure wash the patio

Yeah, there's a trade-off though as plants respond more vigorously to rain water vs. well or tap water. Rain has the benefit of natural nitrates, especially when accompanied by nitrogen-fixing lightning, as well as trace micronutrients picked up on the way down. Poor man's fertilizer. It also avoids the nasty salts delivered by softened water. You can sort of work around the latter handicap by testing and improving your soil's cation exchange capacity but I start to lose my bearings when delving that deep into the chemistry side of things.

The cucumber beetles came out with guns blazing this week so they've been my main adversary as of late. Also probably gonna need to copper fungicide my maters after this soupy weather. Love spending 500 man-hours and $1500 to grow $73 worth of produce.

Overwatering wouldn't cause instant death like that unless the garden were literally submerged... you'd see yellowing and then stunted growth over the course of days and weeks. It's definitely toasty out but nothing we haven't seen yet, so it's also difficult to envision the brassicas just up and dying from heat without bolting first. Got any pix? What you describe is unfortunately consistent with cutworm activity. They feed at night, and the plants start wilting severely and suddenly on the next sunny day. Hopefully it's something else.

You're in a slightly better spot than me, but still not sure I would bank on nature's irrigation today if things are dry. We 0.04" probably. While the NAM is wet, check out the disparity between simu-radar and actual radar valid at 9 am. Abysmal.

2.56" here according to the tipper, grain of salt applied.

35 for a low. Nice job there by the GFS.

Not very much wiggle room at all in terms of frost tomorrow morning. Welcome to June.